I like this story as it goes a long way to explain why the 6502 is the way it is. Having grown up with both Z80 and 6502 essentially in parallel, I'll be the c

I like this story as it goes a long way to explain why the 6502 is the way it is. Having grown up with both Z80 and 6502 essentially in parallel, I'll be the contrarian who never liked either, but will admit that it would have been hard to do better than 6502 did in the given area constraints. (Z80 however could have done so much better - the 128+ bits of architectural state could have been used far better and even have allowed a 16-bit architecture).